When ten-year-old Amy’s dad gets seriously sick and is hospitalized, she moves in with her grandmother on the same farm that her father grew up on. Scared to lose the only parent she has, Amy desperately wants to find a way to cure him. At...

Kaya is an Australian shepherd dog. Kidnapped by a coyote when she was a puppy, she was meant to be food for the coyote family, but the mother took a shine to the puppy and adopted her as one her own. Kaya is raised in...

Amie Borst created adventurous characters and a fun, action-packed novel in Doomy Prepper’s Complete Guide: How to Survive Fifth Grade and the Apocalypse. Doomy Prepper is a logical fifth-grader, whose family is actively prepared for any crisis, disaster, or the apocalypse. He has rules set...

Bob Crane flies to Columbia National Refuge in Washington State every year, along with six thousand other cranes. Families who live in Othello have a Sandhill Crane Festival to celebrate their arrival. Many spectators visit the area to view the amazing sight. This year was...

Children can sense the excitement when parents are preparing to go to the lake. Pets can, too. Bailey certainly senses the preparations underway. As he and Bella go about their morning rituals, they observe the adults preparing bags of clothing, bags of food, and, yes,...

The Proto Project: A Sci-Fi Adventure of the Mind by Bryan R. Johnson is a fun action-adventure story. Jason’s mom works for a high-tech company, and one day his school takes a tour. From then on, it’s one action-packed scene after another. It’s a clean...

Beatrice’s grandmother, her guardian, is gravely sick and might not recover. Haunted by her own dark shadow and scared to think where her life might go if her grandmother dies, Beatrice goes about her chores with a numbness that is so unlike her. She desperately...

Friendship comes in all kinds of packages. Even pets have friends. While it’s not usual, it does happen that a cat befriends a dog. Luckily for Calypso, an alley cat did take an interest in the Welsh terrier. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived the night...

A ranch horse should like cows, right? What if it doesn’t? And yet it still has to ride behind them and help round them up, all with a rider on its back. Shasta is a ranch horse, but he really doesn’t like cows. But his...

Teena and Deena: Hide and Seek is a children’s animal picture book written by CC Strachan and illustrated by Christina Rudenko. Teena wants to teach her little sister, Deena, how to be a whiz at playing hide and seek. She doesn’t think Deena has any...